The South Bronx hotel boomlet continues apace, with a filing on Friday for a 98-key hotel at 156 Bruckner Boulevard, in the southeastern industrial corner of Mott Haven. An application was submitted to the Department of…
Much of urban America, and New York City in particular, is in crisis. Cities are becoming desirable again, but planning is still stuck in the post-war mentality of decline. Rents are skyrocketing as new housing supply pales against…
Earlier today, a permit application was submitted for an unusual building in Brooklyn: five stories of commercial and community facility space, with no housing. While normally rents are not high enough in the borough to…
If you thought the days of piling subsidized housing up on the edges of New York City were over, you thought wrong! Earlier today, an application was filed to construct a 154-unit senior housing facility…
Earlier today, the U.S. Census Bureau released population estimates for 2014 and revised numbers for 2013, showing strong growth in New York City, and highlighting the continuing chronic housing deficit. The five boroughs are near a…
